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Show PROBLEM OF IB 1 Mi JOT ESS? One Manager Tells of the Many Difficulties of Task. It Is said In California that when a man falls at any business he enters the business ilsts as .1 real eatatc dealer, and sometimes It Is said that, when a man In the mountain country falls at any business he becomes a mining man. RcgurdlesB of the truth or falBlty of those assertions, It is ns positive as eternity Itself that the avenige man without sufficient suf-ficient ability to succeed In tho average business venture will meet with even less success In mining. It takes a peculiar pecu-liar combination to be successful In taking tak-ing a piece of mountain sconory and converting con-verting It Into a producer of dividends and an employer of hundreds of men. Some of the Troubles. One who has sounded all tho depths and shoals of mining, and who knows the game from location to proporty conserving conserv-ing a large surplus, was rendorcd reminiscent remin-iscent Saturday to a Tribune reporter. Me said: It Is not easy for a man to realize the difficulties and tho strain one must ondure while engaged in the development de-velopment of a mine. To a great many people to be a. mine manager Is to occupy a comforln.blo city office with frequent trips to the mining camps, with nothing but his Job to lose and everything to gain. Success adds to his wealth and fame, failure merely results from the negligence of nature to enrich the particular portion of tho earth where he and his associates are operating. The average mining man Is made up of the same fibre as the average man In nny business, and he Is grieved at the same things. When one passes through years of non-resulting non-resulting assessments, appreciating lhat the only way to conserve the Interests of his stockholders Is to continue tho levying of assessments with the regularity of clockwork, he must be more than a scholar and diplomat He Is the father confessor of the financial faults of his people. He must be a never fnlllng well of optimism, an anchor to windward. Under his lee everyone comes to snuggle during the storm, no matter how one's own timbors ache and groan under the buffeting they must withstand. Bumper of Fate. Stockholders and one's fellow officials of-ficials become despondent, hundreds of letters and personal calls are received, re-ceived, doubts are expressed of the mine or the management making good, and friends and neighbors express ex-press an Inability to nieet assessments assess-ments until the manager's life Is one unending nightmare and delirium. Friendships are blasted through differences dif-ferences that easily arise over trivial happenings, and everyone has his or her own Idea of just where tho man-age'r man-age'r Is missing the ore and how it should bo sought after. Yet through it all the manager must smile and urge and beg courage cour-age and hope Into those about him. No matter how hard he believes with bis associates that work should be .stopped, he still realizes that the geological conditions pointing unerringly un-erringly to ore must be followed to the logical conclusion, and that the next round of holes may bring success suc-cess to view. Even If ten years of such life result re-sult In dividends and Independence, the game Is not worth the candle after all. If any man would put the pa mo energy, time and ability upon any other line of business as the average mining man gives to his business, there would be very few failures In life anywhere. |